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| Criterion |  Innovation Design Thinking |  Innovation Brainwriting |  Product Discovery Outcome-Driven Innovation |  Facilitation Mind Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | For complex user problems with an uncertain cause, the method connects observation, interpretation, and experiment into a learning cycle. It keeps the focus on real needs and avoids premature solution language. This produces robust decisions for product and service. | When loud voices or hierarchy distort the idea search, the method creates a quiet entry into joint development. It gives everyone thinking space and gathers contributions without social brakes, making diversity more visible and easier to build on. | Outcome-Driven Innovation clarifies customer problems, solution opportunities, and evidence. It separates jobs, desired outcomes, importance, satisfaction, and opportunity, and captures results as desired outcome statements, an opportunity landscape, and segments by underserved needs. | When a topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 15-30 min | Mehrere Wochen | 15-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-12 | 2-6 researchers plus sample | 1-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Problem Statement, Prototype, Test Learnings | Idea sheets, Expanded concepts, Prioritized list | Desired outcome statements, Opportunity landscape, Segmentation by underserved needs, Innovation hypotheses | Mind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions |
Tagsno overlap | InnovationPrototypeResearch | BrainstormingCollaborationInclusionIdeas | OutcomesInnovationResearchQuantitative | BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation |